It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

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

As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when removed, often gives new life to affection.

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adopt the vices of its objects.

These are called the pious frauds of friendship.

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.