True enjoyments also keep people from vice.

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.