A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

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.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.