Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... Courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.