Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.

By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.

Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?

Men hate more steadily than they love.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.