Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance.

Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye to their mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind, that the nations of the several parts of the globe might have a kind of dependence upon one another and be united together by their common interest.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

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

A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections