It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Enough is equal to a feast.
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets; With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
Beauty may be the object of liking – great qualities of admiration – good ones of esteem – but love only is the object of love.
Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them.
Clergy are men as well as other folks.
Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.