Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy.

The sluggard is a living insensible.

Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.

Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.

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

Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.

Family pride entertains many unsocial opinions.