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.

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.

It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's self.