The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.

The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who catches it by retrospection turns back to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

The general remedy of those who are uneasy without knowing the cause is change of place.

Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.