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.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

Handsome is that handsome does.