For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.

Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself which the neglect of legislators had forgotten to supply.

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.