The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.

There are three distinct kind of judges upon all new authors or productions; the first are those who know no rules, but pronounce entirely from their natural taste and feelings; the second are those who know and judge by rules; and the third are those who know, but are above the rules. These last are those you should wish to satisfy. Next to them rate the natural judges; but ever despise those opinions that are formed by the rules.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages.

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.