Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.

Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation.

When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.