We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty.

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.

There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.

He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.