Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

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.