Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.

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

Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke of life is certainly the least oppressive when we carry it with good-humor; and in the shades of rural retirement, when we have once acquired a resolution to pass our hours with economy, sorrowful lamentations on the subject of time misspent and business neglected never torture the mind.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

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

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.