If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

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.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote. Who too deep for his hearers still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining: Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.