Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food.

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

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

Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.

The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.

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

Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you." This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them.