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

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

There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.