When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.