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

When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.