Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions than general opinion; and all are so far influenced by a sense of reputation that they are often restrained by fear of reproach, and excited by hope of honour, when other principles have lost their power.

When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.