Money confounds subordination.

We often need reminding even if we do not often need educating.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.

There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.

True enjoyments also keep people from vice.

There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.