The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

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.

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.

Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.

We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.

Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.