Wicked companions invite us to hell.

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

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

When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

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.