There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

No single character is ever so great that a nation can afford to form itself upon it. Imitation belittles. This appears in the instance of the Chinese. The Chinese are so many Confucii; in miniature. And so with the Jews. Moses, the lawgiver, is poorly represented by Moses, the old clothesman ; or even by Dives, the hanker.

As many suffer from too much as too little.

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.