Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

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

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.

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.

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.

It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.

Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.