All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.

As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

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.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.