As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.

Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

I respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.

Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.