Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

The New Year is the season in which custom seems more particularly to authorize civil and harmless lies, under the name of compliments. People reciprocally profess wishes which they seldom form and concern which they seldom feel.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

The rulers of the earth are all worth knowing; they suggest moral reflections: and the respect that one naturally has for God's vice-regents here on earth is greatly increased by acquaintance with them.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.