The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.

When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.