The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.

Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.