Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.