The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.