The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.