Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.

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

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

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

We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.