Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . .

In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Among other pleasing errors of young minds is the opinion of their own importance. He that has not yet remarked, how little attention his contemporaries can spare from themselves, conceives all eyes turned upon himself, and imagines everyone that approaches him to be an enemy or a follower, an admirer or a spy.