Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

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