Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.