All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.

Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.

Sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action; it is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing contingencies, and providing against them.