Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.

Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.

Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.