Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.

The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.

Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.