It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

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

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.