Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.

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.

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.

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

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

There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.