It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

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.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.