People can commend the weather without envy.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.

Nothing is sure in London, except expense.

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.

May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.