Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.

I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

One fool at least in every married couple.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.