Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.
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 wisest among us is a fool in some things.
It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.