Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.

Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.

Display is as false as it is costly.