The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.

A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.

Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.