Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.

The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.