There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec.

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

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.

It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.