Prudery is ignorance..

True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes..

Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lea….

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child..

One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality..

The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars..

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art..

An Englishman fears contempt more than death..

And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast..

If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich..

Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make u….

Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with ….

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel..

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself..

What is genius or courage without a heart?.

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home..

Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, W….

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves..

See me, how calm I am. Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others..

What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also….

When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leavin….