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

Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.

A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.

We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.