Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.

And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.