Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.

The present is never a happy state to any human being.

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.

Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature; and by that Providence which often places antidotes in the neighborhood of poisons, vice was checked by misery, lest it should swell to universal and unlimited dominion.

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.