Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.

In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

Indolence is the devil's cushion.