Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.

And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having just before threatened to kick his; for I have observed very accurately, that no one ever desires you to kick that which belongs to himself, nor offers to kiss this part in another.

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.