The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

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.

The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.