Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.

Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.

Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.

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.

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.