Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

Error is always talkative.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.