Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right.

The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose life has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useless filler of existence; ad if he is content with his own character, must owe his satisfaction to insensibility.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.