Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

The purse of the patient often protracts his case.

Age is suspicious but is not itself often suspected.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him.

The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.