Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.

A vow is a snare for sin

Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.