Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

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

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.