Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness.

Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.

To do something is in every man's power.

Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often from that change of manners which opulence has produced. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries; but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Suspicion is very often a useless pain.

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