Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet.

As in a game ov cards, so in the game ov life, we must play what is dealt tew us, and the glory consists, not so mutch in winning, as in playing a poor hand well.

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.

When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.

Truth is the edict of God.

Society is composed of slow Christians and wide-awake sinners.