The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.

Colors speak all languages.

The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture when it is employed on this great object of gratitude to the beneficent Being who has given us everything we already possess, and from whom we expect everything we yet hope for.