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

Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.