Beauty Is No Quality In Things Themselves:

Few Enjoyments Are Given From The Open And Liberal Hand Of Nature; But By Art, Labor And Industry We Can Extract Them In Great Abundance. Hence, The Ideas Of Property Become Necessary In All Civil Society.

Human Nature Is The Only Science Of Man; And Yet Has Been Hitherto The Most Neglected.

Men Are Much Oftener Thrown On Their Knees By The Melancholy Than By The Agreeable Passions.

Anticipation Of Pleasure Is, In Itself, A Very Considerable Pleasure.

The Proper Office Of Religion Is To Regulate The Heart Of Men, Humanize Their Conduct, Infuse The Spirit Of Temperance, Order, Andobedience; And As Its Operation Is Silent, And Only Enforces The Motives Of Morality And Justice, It Is In Danger Of Being Overlooked, And Confounded With These Other Motives.