No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.

The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.

Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.