The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.

An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other.

Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixtyou,--the trade drops at once: and this is the reasonwhy travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,--owing to their [the natives'] suspicionthat there is nothing to be extracted from the conversationworth the trouble of their bad language.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.

The world is ashamed of being virtuous.