A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

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

It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.

From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will find most alleviations.

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.