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She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. (romance and romantic)
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! (romance and romantic)
The jests of the rich are ever successful. (riches)
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. (regret)
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? (seduction)
Those that think must govern those that toil. (thoughts and thinkin)
Tenderness is a virtue. (tenderness)
We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown. (retirement)
The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress. (psychology)
Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success. (ridicule)
Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom. (counsel)
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones. (ability)
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. (character)
If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich. (appearance)
There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it. (argument)
The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery. (ambition)
I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. (aristocracy)
Crime generally punishes itself. (crime and criminals)
Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end. (wisdom)
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay. (wealth)
I... chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well. (wives)
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