His inculcations of this virtue fill a large place in my childish remembrances.

He thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by.
This was a topic on which he did not often speak, especially, it may be supposed, in the presence of young persons: but when he did, it was with an air of settled and profound conviction.

He would sometimes say that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth having: but he never spoke with anything like enthusiasm even of that possibility.

He never varied in rating intellectual enjoyments above all others, even in value as pleasures, independently of their ulterior benefits.

The pleasures of the benevolent affections he placed high in the scale; and used to say, that he had never known a happy old man, except those who were able to live over again in the pleasures of the young.