The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

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.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it

Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.

There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.