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

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

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.

The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.

What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.

People can commend the weather without envy.

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.