Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his enlargement, than to do, with greater cunning, what he did before with less.

There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination.

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.