Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.

We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.