Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.

The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves; the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.