Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.

I hardly know a sight that raises one's indignation more than that of an enlarged soul joined to a contracted fortune; unless it be that so much more common one, of a contracted soul joined to an enlarged fortune.

We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.

Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.