Example is always more efficacious than precept.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.