When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.

Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.