It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected.

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.

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

Wicked companions invite us to hell.

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.

The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.