"Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort."

"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature."

"I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together."

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."

"Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."