Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.

It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as an excellent writer has observed, nothing should be esteemed as characteristical, of a species but what is to be found amongst the best and the most perfect individuals of that species.

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

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.