Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.