Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.

True enjoyments also keep people from vice.

He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.