He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

Men become friends by a community of pleasures.

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

Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?

No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.