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

Life protracted is protracted woe.

The business of life is to go forward.

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world.

It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted, the same pleasures.