Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships.

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

Suspicion is very often a useless pain.

To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions than general opinion; and all are so far influenced by a sense of reputation that they are often restrained by fear of reproach, and excited by hope of honour, when other principles have lost their power.