The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.