Wicked companions invite us to hell.

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

These are called the pious frauds of friendship.

Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on both sides.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich -that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.