The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it; you will dry it away. Be always busy.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it.