Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

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.

Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.

A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.

An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.