The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.

The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.

It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game; in which the Booksellers are the Kings; The Critics the Knaves; the Public, the Pack; and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon.

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.