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.

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.

The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.

The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercized in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.