Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

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

Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love.

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.

Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.