The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's self.

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.

Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him