When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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.