Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.