Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

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

Health and happiness give rise to each other.

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured those of the Egyptians.