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

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.

Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.

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

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

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

A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.