Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

We must be doing something to be happy.

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.

Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love.

A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.