O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity; sometimes of generosity; nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue.

It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.

As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when removed, often gives new life to affection.

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.