Be a gentleman farmer.
The itch of scribbling.
We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.