Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.

Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.

That we must all die, we always knew, I wish I had sooner remembred it.