The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.