Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

Silence gives consent.

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.