He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.

Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.