Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence.

Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

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

There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero.

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich -that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.