It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.

In the motive lies the good or ill.

In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the pleasure of possession, will be for some time our sorrow for the loss.

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.