A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.

In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.

There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever desires to be well received in female assemblies, must qualify himself by a total rejection of all that is serious, rational, or important; must consider argument or criticism as perpetually interdicted; and devote all his attention to trifles, and all his eloquence to compliment.