This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

Money confounds subordination.

A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire.