The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.

Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.

A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

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.