While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.

By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.

No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.