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.

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

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

A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.

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

The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

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.