They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of a vacant mind, that they are not so much led by hope as driven by disgust, and wish rather to leave the country than to see the town.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.