Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

An exotic and irrational entertainment.

The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.