If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.

Never mind the use--do it!

Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye; that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the pleasure of possession, will be for some time our sorrow for the loss.