Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.

All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.