If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

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.

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

Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.

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.

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.