And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them.

Tenderness is a virtue.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.