A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.

Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.

The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.

What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.