A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s

Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!