A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

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

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.

They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions fortuitous, destroy the value of their friendship, obstruct the efficacy of their virtues, and set them below the meanest of those who persist in their resolutions, execute what they design, and perform what they have promised.