A man who owes a little can clear it off in a very little time, and, if he is a prudent man, will; whereas a man, who by long negligence, owes a great deal, despairs of ever being able to pay, and therefore never looks into his accounts at all.

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

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

A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.