Most men are unwilling to be taught.

But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.