Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.

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.

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

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

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.