Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

I am about Courting a Girl I have had but little Acquaintance with; how shall I come to a Knowledge of her Fawlts? and whether she has the Virtues I imagine she has?

I am in the prime of senility.

I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country. . . . The turkey . . . is a much more respectable bird.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.