Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.

I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.

It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.

In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.