Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

men do not suspect faults which they do not commit

Suspicion is very often a useless pain.

Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive; for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities; as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.