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

Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.

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.

When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

A fool and his words are soon parted.