Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.