If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.

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.

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

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

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.

It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.