Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

Villains are usually the worst casuists, and rush into crimes to avoid less. Henry VIII. committed murder to avoid the imputation of adultery; and in our times, those who commit the latter crime attempt to wash off the stain of seducing the wife by signifying their readiness to shoot the husband.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.