Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor leisure to let tender expressions soften or sink into her heart. The ball, the show, are not the dangerous places: no, 'tis the private friend, the kind consoler, the companion of the easy vacant hour, whose compliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity, and whose conversation can sooth, without ever stretching her mind, that is the lover to be feared: he who buzzes in her ear at court, or at the opera, must be contented to buzz in vain.

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

Riches seldom make their owners rich.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.

Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.