Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.