It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

There is such a difference between the pursuits of men in great cities that one part of the inhabitants lives to little other purpose than to wonder at the rest. Some have hopes and fears, wishes and aversions, which never enter into the thoughts of others, and inquiry is laboriously exerted to gain that which those who possess it are ready to throw away.