“Success is a fruit of slow growth.”

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.

The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.

Wine and youth are fire upon fire.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.

Let your thoughts be related to what to want in life. They are the seeds, and your dream is the fruit.

Make only those thoughts in mind that you want to see happen, the thoughts are seeds and events are its fruits.

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.

Let your thoughts be related to what to want in life. They are the seeds, and your dream is the fruit.

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

This world is a bitter tree, it has only two sweet nectar like fruits – one is soft voice and the other is company of gentlemen.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one’s own sins.