A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.

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

Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

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

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.

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