No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.

If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination.

No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.