No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.
... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.
Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.