Jesting, Often, Only Proves A Want Of

If We Consider The Manner In Which Those Who Assume The Office Of Directing The Conduct Of Others Execute Their Undertaking, It Will Not Be Very Wonderful That Their Labours, However Zealous Or Affectionate, Are Frequently Useless. For What Is The Advice That Is Commonly Given? A Few General Maxims, Enforced With Vehemence, And Inculcated With Importunity, But Failing For Want Of Particular Reference And Immediate Application.

As Any Custom Is Disused, The Words That Expressed It Must Perish With It; As Any Opinion Grows Popular, It Will Innovate Speech In The Same Proportion As It Alters Practice.

This Was A Good Dinner Enough, To Be Sure, But It Was Not A Dinner To Ask A Man To.

The Dependant Who Cultivates Delicacy In Himself Very Little Consults His Own Tranquillity.

The True Effect Of Genuine Politeness Seems To Be Rather Ease Than Pleasure.