Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it

We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

Most men are unwilling to be taught.