In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.