Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security. The visit of an invader is necessarily rare, but domestic animosities allow no cessation.

Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.