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

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.

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.

Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke of life is certainly the least oppressive when we carry it with good-humor; and in the shades of rural retirement, when we have once acquired a resolution to pass our hours with economy, sorrowful lamentations on the subject of time misspent and business neglected never torture the mind.

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.