One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.

Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.