There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of literature, with resistless weapons, and impenetrable armour, with the mail of the boar of Erymanth, and the paws of the lion of Nemea.

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.