You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.

Men hate more steadily than they love.

When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.

Celestial wisdom calms the mind.

Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.