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

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

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

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

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