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

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.

All nature wears one universal grin.

It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.