Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

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

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

Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.

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