Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions.

It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as an excellent writer has observed, nothing should be esteemed as characteristical, of a species but what is to be found amongst the best and the most perfect individuals of that species.

Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.