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

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

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

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

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

It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.