As we ascend in society, like those who climb a mountain, we shall find that the line of perpetual congelation commences with the higher circles; and the nearer we approach to the grand luminary the court, the more frigidity and apathy shall we experience.

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.

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.