Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.
The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
The insolence of wealth will creep out.
Whoever desires, for his writings or himself, what none can reasonably contemn, the favour of mankind, must add grace to strength, and make his thoughts agreeable as well as useful. Many complain of neglect who never tried to attract regard.
Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.