Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

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

Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase applause; so hypocrisy sets us on an endeavor to avoid censure, by concealing our vices under an appearance of their opposite virtues.

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

There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others concerned with him have done evil! If a man has acted right, he has done well, though along; if wrong, the sanction of all mankind will not justify him.