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.
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.
A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.
Handsome is that handsome does.
Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.