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

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.

You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

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

But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.