Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

As the malicious disposition of mankind is too well known, and the cruel pleasure which they take in destroying the reputation of others, the use we are to make of this knowledge is, to afford no handle for reproach; for bad as the world is, it seldom falls on anyone who hath not given some slight cause for censure.

Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.

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.

There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero.

Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.