In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

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