Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

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

Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.

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.