A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

It may be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.

We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.

The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given no man ability to do much, that something might be left for every man to do. The business of life is carried on by a general co-operation; in which the part of any single man can be no more distinguished, than the effect of a particular drop when the meadows are floated by a summer shower: yet every drop increases the inundation, and every hand adds to the happiness or misery of mankind.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.