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

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

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.

The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

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

It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world.