There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.

All is not gold that glitters, as we have often been told; and the adage is verified in your place and my favour; but if what happens does not make us richer, we must bid it welcome, if it makes us wiser.

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible

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

With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.