Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.
Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.
Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.