When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself.

Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.

Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.

Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.

Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.

Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.

All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens that they color our opinion of those qualities to which mankind have attached responsibility.