There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.

Change is not made without inconvenience.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.