What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude; it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.