The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points.

There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.

Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.

When men comfort themselves with philosophy, 'tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those sentences, and made them their own: philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.