Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable; but life every where furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
Conscience – the only incorruptible thing about us.
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered how wonderfully pleasant it is to the generality of the public to see the folly of their acquaintance exposed by a third person.
There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
What’s vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
Penny saved is a penny got.
Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates.
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.