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A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains, losses and the disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Though a man has all other perfections and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.

I have often thought, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the Middle of Winter.