Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.

There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.

The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt.