Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.

Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket.

The very pink of perfection.

All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

The first blow is half the battle.