Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

In a heavy oppressive atmosphere, when the spirits sink too low, the best cordial is to read over all the letters of one's friends.

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.

Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.

It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.

It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.