There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

A fool and his words are soon parted.

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

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

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

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

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

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

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.

The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.