People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.
Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health’s sake.
There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.
It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
He only who gave life has a power over it.
The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.
There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.
An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.
Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.