Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.

Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look on it with more pleasure than on a new vessel cankered with rust.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

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