It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it.

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.

Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.