Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

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.

When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.