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.

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

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do

Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.

When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.