It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.

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

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.

Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary; but yet it is not easy to avoid.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.