If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.