Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty heap of human calamity, were it only surveyed by the eye of general benevolence equally attentive to every misery.

Men become friends by a community of pleasures.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.