I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.

Was ever poet so trusted before?

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Men hate more steadily than they love.

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.

If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.