Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.