Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice.

A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.

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

What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied.

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

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.