To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects.

The worst evils are those that never arrive.

Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

All to whom want is terrible, upon whatever principle, ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious ancestors, and attain the salutary arts of contracting expense; for without economy none can be rich, and with it few can be poor.

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