I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me

A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.

A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's self.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart