For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.

When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.

Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.