There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

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.

A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.