Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.
A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.
No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.