I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
All nature wears one universal grin.
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
