Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour in improving themselves, they set a proportionate value on their own thoughts, and wish to enforce them by efficacious expressions; speech becomes embodied and permanent; different modes and phrases are compared, and the best obtains an establishment. By degrees one age improves upon another.

For who is pleased with himself.

Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.