Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation.

Such is the state of every age, every sex, and every condition: all have their cares, either from nature or from folly; and whoever, therefore, finds himself inclined to envy another, should remember that he knows not the real condition which he desires to obtain, but is certain that by indulging a vicious passion, he must lessen that happiness which he thinks already too sparingly bestowed.

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

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

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.