Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.