We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse; but, instead of this we find that conversation is never so much straightened and confined, as in numerous assemblies.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

The time never lies heavy upon him; it is impossible for him to be alone.