A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

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

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

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.

Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.