A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

There is such a difference between the pursuits of men in great cities that one part of the inhabitants lives to little other purpose than to wonder at the rest. Some have hopes and fears, wishes and aversions, which never enter into the thoughts of others, and inquiry is laboriously exerted to gain that which those who possess it are ready to throw away.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret.

No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.