Success is a fruit of slow growth.

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.