A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
He, in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.