Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.

The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given no man ability to do much, that something might be left for every man to do. The business of life is carried on by a general co-operation; in which the part of any single man can be no more distinguished, than the effect of a particular drop when the meadows are floated by a summer shower: yet every drop increases the inundation, and every hand adds to the happiness or misery of mankind.

A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.

Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.