No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

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.

It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

A vow is a snare for sin

Men hate more steadily than they love.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.