It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.

No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.

There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec.

None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.

The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.

Most men know what they hate, few what they love.