What is easy is seldom excellent.

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

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

In sovereignty there are no gradations.

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.

Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.

To buried merit rise the tardy bust.