Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
The future is purchased by the present.
It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
Grief is a species of idleness.
Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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.
Knock the ‘t’ off the ‘can’t.’
Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
The disturbers of happiness are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.
To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.
To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.