Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.