Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

A vow is a snare for sin

Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body.

See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, to buried merit raise the tardy bust.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.