What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

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.

Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.

People can commend the weather without envy.