What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.

Waste cannot be accurately told, though we are sensible how destructive it is. Economy, on the one hand, by which a certain income is made to maintain a man genteelly; and waste, on the other, by which on the same income another man lives shabbily, cannot be defined. It is a very nice thing; as one man wears his coat out much sooner than another, we cannot tell how.

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are

A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger.