Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

Filial obedience is the first and greatest requisite of a state; by this we become good subjects to our emperors, capable of behaving with just subordination to our superiors, and grateful dependents on heaven; by this we become fonder of marriage, in order to be capable of exacting obedience from others in our turn; by this we become good magistrates, for early submission is the truest lesson to those who would learn to rule. By this the whole state may be said to resemble one family.