Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the most, must always have the most money.

Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater.

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.