Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

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

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.

Bread is the staff of life.

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.