wit is often its own worst enemy.
It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.
How success changes the opinion of men!
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.
sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.