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.

A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.

No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.