I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by the eternal measures of right and wrong:MThe first of these will comprehend the duties of religion;Mthe second, those of morality, which are so inseparably connected together, that you cannot divide these two tableswithout breaking and mutually destroying them both.

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.

The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.

There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in every thing, and who, having eyes to see, what time and chance are perpetually holding out to him as he journeyeth on his way, misses nothing he can fairly lay his hands on.