A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.
What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.