How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.

Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.

In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.

Probably no one will ever know whether it is better to wear a nightcap or not.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.