Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.

Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.

Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.

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.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.