Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions; it is the order, the symmetry, the interior beauty of the mind; the source of the trues….

The most savage and voracious animal never kills to increase his wealth, or open a way to grandeur. It slays to satisfy his hunger, or in a natural d….

How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation!.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not rue.

Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs..

I am strangely addicted to the writing of long letters, which, I am afraid, tire you; and for the future, I believe, I must be less communicative, in….

... those, who from an immoderate and false self-love, study to keep their humanity under, always take care, for their own sakes, to represent povert….

I am to consider the many advantages arising from a frequent use of oaths, curses, and imprecations. In the first place, this genteel accomplishment ….

swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb..

Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions..

prayer must be, in its own nature, absurd and impertinent..

Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end..