Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.

I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him; but angry he is, no doubt; and he is loath to be angry at himself.

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur