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

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.

Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.

Whatever you have spend less.

There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.