So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.

Nothing is certain in London but 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.

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

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

The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.