A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat..

Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from a….

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it.

When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with em….

I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son towards a mother..

We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious sentiments we read, a….

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long..

Sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action; it is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is f….

Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!.

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God..

Goals help you overcome short-term problems..

when these incorrigible talkers are compelled to be quiet, is it not evident that they are not silent because they are listening to what is said, but….

A small unkindness is a great offence..

Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing..

When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word..

I used to wonder why people should be so fond of the company of their physician, till I recollected that he is the only person with whom one dares to….

Perish discretion, when it interferes With duty!.

The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart..

it may be in morals as it is in optics, the eye and the object may come too close to each other, to answer the end of vision. There are certain fault….

Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity..

Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than….