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.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.