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.

The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond endearments and tender officiousness; and, therefore, no one should think it unnecessary to learn those arts by which friendship may be gained.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.