There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.

Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.

It is generally allowed, that no man ever found the happiness of possession proportionate to that expectation which incited his desire, and invigorated his pursuit; nor has any man found the evils of life so formidable in reality, as they were described to him by his own imagination; every species of distress brings with it some peculiar supports, some unforeseen means of resisting, or powers of enduring.

No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.

No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.

The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.