Grief is a species of idleness.

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.

The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

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

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.