Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature; and by that Providence which often places antidotes in the neighborhood of poisons, vice was checked by misery, lest it should swell to universal and unlimited dominion.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.