We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.