A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.

Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.

There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet this worst, this meanest fate, every one who dares to write has reason to fear.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.