Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.

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?

Hope is necessary in every condition.