A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
From Samuel Johnson
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
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