The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.
True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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.
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.