Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors of a country christening, and you will find no court in Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford.

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

A fool and his words are soon parted.

The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.

Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.