The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

We ask advice but we mean approbation.

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being thought extremely humble, and would go round the world to punish those who thought them capable of revenge; they are so satisfied of the suavity of their own temper that they would quarrel with their dearest benefactor only for doubting it.

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

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.