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

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.

The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt.

Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

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.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.