Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.