Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.