A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.

It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Gaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; good-humor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending.

Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in physick.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.