If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.

That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.

Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.

You will see in this my notion of good works, that I am far from expecting to merit heaven by them. By heaven we understand a state of happiness, infinite in degree, and eternal in duration. I can do nothing to deserve such rewards... Even the mixed imperfect pleasures we enjoy in this world, are rather from God's goodness than our merit, how much more such happiness of heaven!

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.