Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.

Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

True enjoyments also keep people from vice.

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.