Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession..

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty..

As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship..

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel..

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying ev….

Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning..

The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal..

The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there he had….

When you descant on the faults of others, consider whether you be not guilty of the same. To gain knowledge of ourselves, the best way is to convert ….

Beauty loses its relish; the graces never..

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself..

Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes..

Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love..

A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it..

Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly po….

The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape..

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience..

Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty..

To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition..

Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who ….

A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible of, and of whi….