The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.