The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures,