Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

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

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.