It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.

Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.