The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.

He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.