Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.

There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet this worst, this meanest fate, every one who dares to write has reason to fear.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

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

Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was