Men become friends by a community of pleasures.

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.