The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

Nature never gives everything at once.

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.

That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow for the most part that rejection to be wrong, but charge the fault upon the unskilful manner in which it is given; they admit the efficacy of the medicine, but abhor the nauseousness of the vehicle.