Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.

Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.

Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.