The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe.

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with his pleasures and his pains, is perhaps the first to publish injuries or misfortunes which had never been known unless related by himself, and at which those that hear them will only laugh, for no man sympathises with the sorrows of vanity.

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