There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.

why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?

How success changes the opinion of men!

I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.

We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.