Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well.

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power. We must snatch the present moment, and employ it well, without too much solicitude for the future, and content ourselves with reflecting that our part is performed. He that waits for an opportunity to do much at once, may breathe out his life in idle wishes, and regret, in the last hour, his useless intentions and barren zeal.