A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.