The first blow is half the battle.

Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. Happy were we all born philosophers; all born with a talent of thus dissipating our own cares by spreading them upon all mankind.

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

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.