Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

In a heavy oppressive atmosphere, when the spirits sink too low, the best cordial is to read over all the letters of one's friends.