A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

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.

The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.

A fool and his words are soon parted.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.