The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

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

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.

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.

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.