Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.