If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.

On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.