Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.

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.

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

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others concerned with him have done evil! If a man has acted right, he has done well, though along; if wrong, the sanction of all mankind will not justify him.

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

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