That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.

An exotic and irrational entertainment.

Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished.

The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.