Once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb.

Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is nothing with respect either to honour or advantage, for the world cannot reward those qualities which are concealed from it; with respect to others it is nothing, because it affords no help to ignorance or errour.

Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold indifference; but an inhabitant of the remoter parts of the kingdom is immediately distinguished by a kind of dissipated curiosity, a busy endeavour to divide his attention amongst a thousand objects, and a wild confusion of astonishment and alarm.

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.