Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it. While you continue to be splenetic, count upon it I will always preach. Thus much I sympathize with you that I am not cheerful enough to write, for I believe Coffee once a week is necessary to that.

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.