The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.

Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with his pleasures and his pains, is perhaps the first to publish injuries or misfortunes which had never been known unless related by himself, and at which those that hear them will only laugh, for no man sympathises with the sorrows of vanity.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.