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

We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.

Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.

Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.