Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

Gratitude is a species of justice.

To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its cause is morbid, and should be shaken off as an attack of melancholy, as the forerunner of a greater evil than poverty or pain.

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.

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.

What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s