What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.

When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.

The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this, planting promises a more lasting pleasure than building; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance that suits our taste, and that is annual variety.

Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.

It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.