History is but a confused heap of facts.

It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.

Few people do business well, who do nothing else.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

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.

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.