As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation on the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric.