Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity; it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault, is greater than the philosopher with many; for what is genius or courage without a heart?

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.