My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.
General notions are generally wrong.
one would suffer a great deal to be happy.
The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.
A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.