My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.

I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon?

Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: "That women are timid:" And 'tis well they are--else there would beno dealing with them.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

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

Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to survive; as it must naturally lessen the concern they might otherwise feel for their loss.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.