To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.