How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

To buried merit rise the tardy bust.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.