No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.