... it's vastly more irksome to give up one's own way, than to hear a few impertinent remarks.

Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.

falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.

We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.