Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one hastens through by-paths to private profit, no great change can suddenly be made; nor is superior knowledge of much effect, where every man resolves to use his own eyes and his own judgment, and every one applauds his own dexterity and diligence, in proportion as he becomes rich sooner than his neighbour.

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished.