Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.

Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist!

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.