A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious without pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness.

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

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