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

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.

He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.

It is the quality of patriotism to be jealous and watchful, to observe all secret machinations, and to see publick dangers at a distance. The true lover of his country is ready to communicate his fears, and to sound the alarm, whenever he perceives the approach of mischief. But he sounds no alarm, when there is no enemy; he never terrifies his countrymen till he is terrified himself. The patriotism, therefore, may be justly doubted of him, who professes to be disturbed by incredibilities.

No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance.

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.