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

It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.

Love can be founded upon Nature only.

Nothing is certain in London but expense.

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.

Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.