Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you." This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them.

Wicked companions invite us to hell.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.