Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.

When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.

Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which is strongly marked, and speaks the kind seldom to have mixed with any other. But there is nothing in the shape, nothing in the faculties, that shows their coming from different originals; and the varieties of climate, of nourishment, and custom, are sufficient to produce every change.

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.