A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty heap of human calamity, were it only surveyed by the eye of general benevolence equally attentive to every misery.

Life protracted is protracted woe.

How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.