Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.

Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.

What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.