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.

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.

Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

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.

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