Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

It is good to have friends at court.

His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.

There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.

Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.