Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?

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.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

There are many ways of inducing sleep--the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge fixed over a brass pan, etc. But temperance and exercise answer much better than any of these succedaneums.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns, and can wisely extract the good from the evil, knows only how to live: this is true contentment, at least all that is to be had of it in this world; and for this every man must be indebted not to his fortune, but to himself.