Most women have no characters at all.

The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.