It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.

A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

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.

No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.