As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding their number, ought not to wound our virtue by reason of their insignificance.

Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.