Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

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 liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?