It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.

But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they read, some early conversation which they heard, or some accident which excited ardour and emulation.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.