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

Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably cast away?

Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

What persons are by starts they are by nature.