If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications.

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.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.