Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you." This will most cert….

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil..

There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself mos….

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality..

Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries..

As a great part of the uneasiness of matrimony arises from mere trifles,, it would be wise in every young married man to enter into an agreement with….

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes..

Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit..

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough..

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others..

An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at ….

It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all..

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you wi….

O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth….

There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose ….

Every physician almost hath his favourite disease..

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 sm….

for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to all a….

Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us..

Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory..

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when….