The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Men become friends by a community of pleasures.

Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.

A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.