The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.