We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.