I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.

I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.

Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.

I heartily wish you, in the plain home-spun style, a great number of happy new years, well employed in forming both your mind andyour manners, to be useful and agreeable to yourself, your country, and your friends.

Whatever poets may write, or fools believe, of rural innocence and truth, and of the perfidy of courts, this is most undoubtedly true,--that shepherds and ministers are both men; their natures and passions the same, the modes of them only different.