Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.