About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.

The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.

Every man is of importance to himself.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.