Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.

Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions.

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.