Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.

Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are unable to finish them, having prescribed to themselves such a degree of exactness as human diligence can scarcely ontain.