False praise is always confined to the great.

Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.

A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible of, and of which every other is equally sensible. Yours and mine are terms in all languages, familiar among savages, and understood even by children. This is a fact, which every human creature can testify.