There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond endearments and tender officiousness; and, therefore, no one should think it unnecessary to learn those arts by which friendship may be gained.

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?