Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

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

The man who is wantonly profuse of his promises ought to sink his credit as much as a tradesman would by uttering a great number of promissory notes payable at a distant day. The truest conclusion in both cases is, that neither intend or will be able to pay. And as the latter most probably intends to cheat you of your money, so the former at least designs to cheat you of your thanks.

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.