We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.

A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.

Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.

It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.