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.

The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

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

With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered how wonderfully pleasant it is to the generality of the public to see the folly of their acquaintance exposed by a third person.

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.

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.