We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess.

The purse of the patient often protracts his case.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

An everlasting tranquility is, in my imagination, the highest possible felicity, because I know of no felicity on earth higher than that which a peaceful mind and contented heart afford.

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.

Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.