Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart