The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.

Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he has gone before us. We could not all conveniently start together; and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and know where to find him.

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.