» If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
» Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
» Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
» Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.
» Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
» The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.
» Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven.
» I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
» He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
» What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.