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.

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

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.

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.

The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

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

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