To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?