Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

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.

You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar.

Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise