What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

The coyest maids make the fondest wives.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.

What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!