As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.