A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.

Avarice is always poor.

Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.

The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.

The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity are adopted with design.