The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

If time, like money, could be laid by while one was not using it, there might be some excuse for the idleness of half of the world, but yet not a full one. For even this would be such an economy as the living on a principal sum, without making it purchase interest.

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.

For I begin with writing the first sentence, — and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its nature, it forces the blood and other vital fluids of the body to run freely thro' its channels, and makes the wheel of life run long and chearfully round.