Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.