The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.

The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.