Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.

A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause of calling their possession of them into question.

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.

Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.