Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

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

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.

Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.