A woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man; because love is more the study and business of her life.

History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.

There's nothing like being in fashion. A man that has once got his character up for a wit is always sure of a laugh, say what he may. He may utter as much nonsense as he pleases, and all will pass current. No one stops to question the coin of a rich man; but a poor devil cannot pass off either a joke or a guinea without its being examined on both sides. Wit and coin are always doubted with a threadbare coat.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.

after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head

No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.