Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.

Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning, they must be content to follow opinions, which they are not able to examine; and, even in that which they claim as peculiarly their own, can seldom add more than some small particle of knowledge, to the hereditary stock devolved to them from ancient times, the collective labour of a thousand intellects.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.