The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.

Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted, the same pleasures.

Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

What is easy is seldom excellent.