A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within.

I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to think before they speak!

I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.

Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.

It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!