When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it; you will dry it away. Be always busy.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method of obtaining her kindness is to praise her beauty.

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve.

It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.