Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

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.

Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.