The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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.
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.