There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.