Truth is most beautiful undraped.

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.