We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.

Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without reply, and ravages without resistance. Without good humour virtue may awe by its dignity and amaze by its brightness, but must always be viewed at a distance, and will scarcely gain a friend or attract an imitator.

To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.

The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it