A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.

A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.