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

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.

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

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.

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than away of braying?

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