Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?

Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.

Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.