There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

There is scarcely any less bother in the running of a family than in that of an entire state. And domestic business is no less importunate for being less important.

There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.

Those things are dearest to us that have cost us most.

Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?

To smell, though well, is to stink.

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.

We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up