All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.

For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.

The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.