1. ‘Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affection appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.”
2. “Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.”
3. “Conscience – the only incorruptible thing about us.”
4. “Wine and youth are fire upon fire.”
5. “Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory.”
6. “Love and scandal are best sweeteners of tea.”
7. “Success is a fruit of slow growth.”
8. ‘Let no man be sorry he has doe good, because others have done evil.”
9. “What’s vice today may be virtue tomorrow.”
10. “Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at cheapest rate.”
11. “Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.”
12. “All nature wears one universal grin.”
13. “Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.”
14. “No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.”
15. “Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.”
16. “A lottery is a taxation on all the fools in creation.”
17. “Life may as properly be called an art as any other.”
18. “The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.”
19. “The highest friendship must always lead us to highest pleasure.”
20. “It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.”
21. “Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.”
22. “There’s one fool at least in every married couple.”
23. “Where he law ends tyranny begins.”
24. ‘Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.”
25. “Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.”
26. “We are as liable to be corrupted by book, as by companions.”
27. “Dignity and love were never yet boon companions.”
28. “Penny saved is a penny got.”
29. “Sensuality not only debases both the body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.”
30. “Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.”
