When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.
Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.
Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer.
It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.