“Where the law ends tyranny begins.”
“All nature wears one universal grin.”
“One fool at least in every married couple.”
“What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.”
“It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.”
“Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.”
“Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us.”
“Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.”
“Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.”
“Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.”
“When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.”
“We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.”
“Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.”
“Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven.”
“Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.”
“If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.”
“Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.”
“It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.”
“Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.”
“Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.”
“It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.”
“The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.”
“When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.”
“Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.”
“Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.”
“There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.”
“Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.”
“There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.”
“Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.”
“His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.”