Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.

To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage.

What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

A family ... is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.

He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.