I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

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.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.