Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.