Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found and each believes it possessed by others to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise but little danger.
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both but by too much prudence may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
No man was ever great by imitation.
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
A am a great friend of public amusements they keep people from vice.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.