Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our eyes, it is to be feared, are seldom turned up to those who are manifestly greater, better, wiser, or happier than ourselves, without some degree of malignity, we commonly look downward on the mean and miserable with sufficient benevolence and pity.

Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.

Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions.

In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.