Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.

Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write. The regard of the public is not to be kept but by tribute, and the remembrance of past service will quickly languish unless successive performances frequently revive it. Yet in every new attempt there is new hazard, and there are few who do not, at some unlucky time, injure their own characters by attempting to enlarge them.