This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

The business of life is to go forward.

The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.