Reason and truth will prevail at last

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that has but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he be confounded with him that can do nothing.

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.

It is astonishing that any man can forbear enquiring seriously whether there is a God; whether God is just; whether this life is the only state of existence.

We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.