Security will produce danger.

Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.

Good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects few materials for its own operations, and preserves safety, but never gains supremacy.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till wishes for a particular qualification are improved to hopes of attainment, and hopes of attainment to belief of possession.