Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

Security will produce danger.

The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.

Whatever you have spend less.

There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage.

Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.