Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.
Late children are early orphans.
Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense
Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.
Man differs more from man than man from beast
Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.