Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived in the gloom of a sick chamber, where it will be vain to expect entertainment from the gay, or instruction from the wise; where all human glory is obliterated, the wit is clouded, the reasoner perplexed, and the hero subdued; where the highest and brightest of mortal beings finds nothing left him but the consciousness of innocence.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.

Faults and defects every work of man must have.

Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.

To buried merit rise the tardy bust.