While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.