We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.

Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute.

As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.

He that has too much to do will do something wrong.

No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.