We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves.

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.

Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.

Good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects few materials for its own operations, and preserves safety, but never gains supremacy.

Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.