Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.

Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.