Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.

The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest

There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

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.

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

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

It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.