As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

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

Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.

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

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.