The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported.

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.

How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.