To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

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.

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.