Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of literature, with resistless weapons, and impenetrable armour, with the mail of the boar of Erymanth, and the paws of the lion of Nemea.

Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.