A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.