Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.

That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow for the most part that rejection to be wrong, but charge the fault upon the unskilful manner in which it is given; they admit the efficacy of the medicine, but abhor the nauseousness of the vehicle.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to other things.

Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.