Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.

To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.

We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.