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

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

A fool and his words are soon parted.

The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

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.