Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.

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.

Nothing is sure in London, except expense.

It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.

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

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.