While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

All the bloomy flush of life is fled.

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.