We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.

A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.

There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.