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

A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

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.

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do

Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy