We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.

Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.

Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.