It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected.

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 grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry.

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

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

Handsome is that handsome does.

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