There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.

To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew stone, would have been unworthy of Palladio; and to have rambled in search of shells and flowers, had but ill suited with the capacity of Newton.

It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it.