Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

Authority

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

Books and Reading

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.

Censure

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Consequences

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

Death and Dying

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Fathers

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Friends and Friendship

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Happiness

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Honor

The post of honor is a private station.

Injury

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Knowledge

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

Marriage

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Music

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

Ostentation

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Perfection

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Pride

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Solitude

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

Time and Time Management

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.