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.

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.

To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture--how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?

Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.