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

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea

Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of

Now, in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later