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.

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.