Self-love Is A Busy Prompter.

To Understand The Works Of Celebrated Authors, To Comprehend Their Systems, And Retain Their Reasonings, Is A Task More Than Equal To Common Intellects; And He Is By No Means To Be Accounted Useless Or Idle, Who Has Stored His Mind With Acquired Knowledge, And Can Detail It Occasionally To Others Who Have Less Leisure Or Weaker Abilities.

You Never Find People Laboring To Convince You That You May Live Very Happily Upon A Plentiful Income.

The Most Fatal Disease Of Friendship Is Gradual Decay.

A Ship Is Worse Than A Gaol. There Is, In A Gaol, Better Air, Better Company, Better Conveniency Of Every Kind; And A Ship Has The Additional Disadvantage Of Of Being In Danger.

Hypocrisy Is The Necessary Burden Of Villainy.