He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

Courtesy and good-humour are often found with little real worth.

Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions