Age is suspicious but is not itself often suspected.

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin; the consequences of which are fully detailed, and not in a way calculated to seduce any but weak but weak minds; few of their heroines are happily disposed of.

The sluggard is a living insensible.

In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which the mind has no enjoyment, and which only afford a temporary relief to languor by steeping the senses in forgetfulness; but in the precious pleasures of the intellect, so easily accessible by all mankind, the great have no exclusive privilege; for such enjoyments are only to be procured by our own industry.

Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity.