“The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.”
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I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.