Round numbers are always false.

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.

Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief of some pressing uneasiness, or the attainment of some near advantage.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.