Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.

In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of which, if we neglect the apparent duties to make provision against visionary attacks, we shall certainly counteract our own purpose.

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships.

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?