People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.

O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.