Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it

It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.

Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.

He endearing elegance of female friendship.