The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing.

It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation.

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.

If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.