The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.