I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.