We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.
It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.