I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.

Books, the children of the brain.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.

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.