Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.

He that serves God for Money, will serve the Devil for better Wages.

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners.