The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.

Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

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