Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.

A fallible being will fail somewhere.

He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.

All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted.