Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich -that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory.

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.