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

Suspicion is very often a useless pain.

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

All to whom want is terrible, upon whatever principle, ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious ancestors, and attain the salutary arts of contracting expense; for without economy none can be rich, and with it few can be poor.

I would injure no man, and should provoke no resentment. I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the benedictions of gratitude. I would choose my friends among the wise and my wife among the virtuous, and therefore should be in no danger from treachery or unkindness. My children should by my care be learned and pious, and would repay to my age what their childhood had received.

Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.