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

Crimes generally punish themselves.

The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.

A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.