Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

I always get the better when I argue alone.

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

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

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

And learn the luxury of doing good.