Theirs is the present who can praise the past.

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

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.

However, I think a plain space near the eye gives it a kind of liberty it loves; and then the picture, whether you choose the grand or beautiful, should be held up at its proper distance. Variety is the principal ingredient in beauty; and simplicity is essential to grandeur.

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

People can commend the weather without envy.

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.