Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.

The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.