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

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.

Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

People can commend the weather without envy.

Love can be founded upon Nature only.

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.