In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it$$$ struggle with it$$$ beat it down$$$ stifle it$$$ mortify

I grew convinc'd that truth$$$ sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life;

There are no gains without pains.

Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen$$$ as by little advantages that occur every day.

How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep$$$ forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry$$$ and that there will be sleeping enough in the

He wish'd to please everybody; and$$$ having little to give$$$ he gave expectations.

There was great difference between persons and$$$ discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it.

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself

A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty$$$ perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature$$$ since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.