What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.

Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold indifference; but an inhabitant of the remoter parts of the kingdom is immediately distinguished by a kind of dissipated curiosity, a busy endeavour to divide his attention amongst a thousand objects, and a wild confusion of astonishment and alarm.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .