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

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

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

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

Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.

Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms.

Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have additional senses, and their capacities enlarged not only above other men, but above human comprehension itself.