When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.