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.

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.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

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

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.