Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.

Nothing is sure in London, except expense.

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

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

People can commend the weather without envy.

My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

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