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.

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.

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

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.

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

The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.

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.