I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.

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

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets