All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.

What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.