A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.