We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.

Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its uneasiness, which those who do not feel them will not commiserate. An event which spreads distraction over half the commercial world, assembles the trading companies in councils and committees, and shakes the nerves of a thousand stockjobbers, is read by the landlord and the farmer with frigid indifference.

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.