All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended to weak judgments by the lustre which they obtain from their union with excellence; but it is the business of those who presume to superintend the taste or morals of mankind to separate delusive combinations, and distinguish that which may be praised from that which can only be excused.