When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.

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.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.