All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.

If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.