Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.

Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.

Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his quiet, and much less his virtue, to obtain it, for all that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a quicker succession of flatteries, and a larger circle of voluptuousness.