Courtesy and good-humour are often found with little real worth.

Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.

Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.

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 read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.