...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to survive; as it must naturally lessen the concern they might otherwise feel for their loss.

There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill-will: a word--a look, which at one time would make no impression, at another time wounds the heart, and, like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural force, would scarce have reached the object aimed at.

If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul, in the meekness of thy conversation; condescend to men of low estate, support the distressed, and patronize the neglected. Be great.

...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.