The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.