Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself. While we see multitudes passing before us, of whom perhaps not one appears to deserve our notice or excites our sympathy, we should remember, that we likewise are lost in the same throng, that the eye which happens to glance upon us is turned in a moment on him that follows us, and that the utmost which we can reasonably hope or fear is to fill a vacant hour with prattle, and be forgotten.

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.