It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.

They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.

The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?

Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.