Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.

There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it.

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.