Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without a line""-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.