Politeness is fictitious benevolence.
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.
Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty heap of human calamity, were it only surveyed by the eye of general benevolence equally attentive to every misery.