Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right.

The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.

A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.

As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.