The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

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.