The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

Wicked companions invite us to hell.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.