It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's self.

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.

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.

Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.