Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

The unhappy never want enemies.

Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,--and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.

What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?