Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.

Nature never gives everything at once.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will be allowed by those who wish to elevate the character of a scholar; since they cannot but know that every human acquisition is valuable in proportion to the difficulty of its attainment.