Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure.

I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.

We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying the price at which they are offered to us. Every man wishes to be rich, but very few have the powers necessary to raise a sudden fortune, either by new discoveries, or by superiority of skill in any necessary employment; and among lower understandings many want the firmness and industry requisite to regular gain and gradual acquisitions.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.