Security will produce danger.

We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.

No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.

Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.

The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiquity conferred upon them, and become precedents of indisputable authority.

Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.