All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

Men become friends by a community of pleasures.

Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.