Nothing is certain in London but expense.

Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.

Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.