Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.

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

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.

The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.

We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.