Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Avarice is always poor.
All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.
It is astonishing that any man can forbear enquiring seriously whether there is a God; whether God is just; whether this life is the only state of existence.
It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.
No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.