We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know he ought to be silent on some other subject of which he has but a slight knowledge; if such an illustrious man ventures beyond the bounds of his capacity, he loses his way and talks like a fool.