What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.

Nothing is sure in London, except expense.

When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.