Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.

What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves.