Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.

Naked Truth needs no shift.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.