Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before...
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
All of heaven we have below.
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good nature or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to inven...
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something wh...
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
We are growing serious and let me tell you that's a very next step to being dull.
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
A day an hour of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
What sunshine is to flowers smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles to be sure but scattered along life's pathway the good they do is inconceivable.
If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live I shall leave it when I am summoned out of it with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not...
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.