Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

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

Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.