Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.

Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

Commerce is really as interesting as nature.

Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,--shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter acceptas special or general providences; but they touch our consciences, they remind us of our sins. Another deluge would disgrace mankind.