You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken by the sun, will be pleased to see a fainter orb arise on the horizon, that may rescue him from total darkness, though with weak and borrowed lustre.

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.