Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking.

Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.