No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Handsome is that handsome does.

He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.

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

It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.