The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.

"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .

I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him; but angry he is, no doubt; and he is loath to be angry at himself.