The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.

Nothing is certain in London but expense.

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

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.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in 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.

What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.