"As to love our neighbour as we love ourselves is the great law of Christianity, so it is the great precept of nature …"

"Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind."

"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the …"

"Society and conversation, therefore, are the most powerful remedies for restoring the mind to its tranquillity, if, a…"

"Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by m…"

"But bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does."

"To desire you to read my book over and mark all the corrections you would wish me to make...would oblige me greatly: …"

"Poor David Hume is dying very fast, but with great cheerfulness and good humour and with more real resignation to the…"

"I perfectly agree with your Lordship too, that to crush the Industry of so great and so fine a province of the empire…"

"This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and powerful, and to despise or, at least, neglect person…"