Misery and shame are nearly allied.

Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

Waste cannot be accurately told, though we are sensible how destructive it is. Economy, on the one hand, by which a certain income is made to maintain a man genteelly; and waste, on the other, by which on the same income another man lives shabbily, cannot be defined. It is a very nice thing; as one man wears his coat out much sooner than another, we cannot tell how.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.

By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.