Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.

The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.