an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.

How little has situation to do with happiness.

O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.

. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.

People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way to elude apathy, or escape discontent; none other to guard the temper from that quarrel with itself, which ultimately ends in quarreling with all mankind.