Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

You must be respectable, if you will be respected.

Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.

People will, in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you upon that which they have of your friends; and there is a Spanish proverb which says vry justly, 'Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you who you are.'

Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.