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

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the rest of the company, doth not put the person rallied out of countenance, or expose him to shame or contempt. On the contrary, the jest should be so delicate that the object of it should be capable of joining in the mirth it occasions.

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.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.