Mortifications Are Often More Painful Than Real

All That Philosophy Can Teach Is To Be Stubborn Or Sullen Under Misfortunes.

It World Be Well Had We More Misers Than We Have Among Us.

Whatever Be The Motives Which Induce Men To Write,--whether Avarice Or Fame,--the Country Becomes More Wise And Happy In Which They Most Serve For Instructors.

Some Fleeting Good, That Mocks Me With The View.

[t]here Are Depths Of Thousands Of Miles Which Are Hidden From Our Inquiry. The Only Tidings We Have From Those Unfathomable Regions Are By Means Of Volcanoes, Those Burning Mountains That Seem To Discharge Their Materials From The Lowest Abysses Of The Earth.