I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.

Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the eye of benevolence sparkles at the sight of happiness and plenty: in winter, compassion melts at universal calamity, and the tear of softness starts at the wailing of hunger and the cries of the creation in distress

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.