Were I to be angry at men being fools, I could here find ample room for declamation; but, alas! I have been a fool myself; and why should I be angry with them for being something so natural to every child of humanity?

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.

Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. Happy were we all born philosophers; all born with a talent of thus dissipating our own cares by spreading them upon all mankind.

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.

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.