A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness."

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

"They improvidentially piped growing volumes of sewage into the sea, the healing virtues of which were advertised on every railway station."