The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.

If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it, with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.

By anticipation we sugar misery and enjoy happiness before they are in being. We can set the sun and stars forward, or lose sight of them by wandering into those retired parts of eternity when the heavens and earth shall be no more.

I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless.

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.

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