The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of general venality, to lead a life of virtue and reason in the midst of sensualists, is a proof of a mind intent on nobler things than the praise or blame of men, of a soul fixed in the contemplation of the highest good, and superiour to the tyranny of custom and example.

The synonyme of usury is ruin.

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

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

A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves.