Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

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

Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.

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