A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it.

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

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.