"The commonest things are the most useful; which shows the wisdom of God, who has made them common."

"The three grand enemies of human happiness are public envy, civil discord, and religious faction."

"The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit."

"The reason why so few marriages are happy, is, because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages."

"Conversation is but carving; Carve for all, yourself is starving: Give no more to every Guest, Than he's able to digest; Give him always of the Prime; And but little at a Time. Carve to all but just e…"