Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.

Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

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

There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.

Suspicion is very often a useless pain.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.