Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
The stars shall fade away the sun himself Grow dim with age and nature sink in years But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth Unhurt amidst the wars of elements The wrecks of matter and the crush of worlds.
Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; old age is slow in both.
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity and indeed of every age in the world have passed through this fiery persecution.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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.
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.