Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee.
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.
Self praise is no praise at all.