A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.

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

Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.

Hope is itself a species of happiness.

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures