There should be a stated day for commemorating the birthday of our Savior, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.