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

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

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

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.

The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercized in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.