Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.