The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.

On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting.

He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.

Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.