It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.

It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.

No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.

Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.

No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body.