Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

Grief is a species of idleness.

Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor leisure to let tender expressions soften or sink into her heart. The ball, the show, are not the dangerous places: no, 'tis the private friend, the kind consoler, the companion of the easy vacant hour, whose compliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity, and whose conversation can sooth, without ever stretching her mind, that is the lover to be feared: he who buzzes in her ear at court, or at the opera, must be contented to buzz in vain.

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition, by raising an opinion that honour may be gained without the toil of merit.