Judgment is forced upon us by experience

Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will find most alleviations.