For who is pleased with himself.

People in distress never think that you feel enough.

Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!

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