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

I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

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.

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.