Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.

The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.