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!

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

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

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.

Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.