Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.

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.

A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it.

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

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

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