Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms.

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.

A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.

A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart