Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.

Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.

With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.

No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance.