Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Applause abates diligence.

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

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

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.