There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.