Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.
The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have
There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.
Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.