Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty heap of human calamity, were it only surveyed by the eye of general benevolence equally attentive to every misery.

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.