What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.

There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind; accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

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

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

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