Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.

The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.

Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.

This is the day when people reciprocally offer, and receive, the kindest and the warmest wishes, though, in general, without meaning them on one side, or believing them on the other. They are formed by the head, in compliance with custom, though disavowed by the heart, in consequence of nature.

A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.

All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.

Spirit is now a very fashionable word: to act with Spirit, to speak with Spirit, means only to act rashly, and to talk indiscreetly. An able man shows his Spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid.