An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart