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.

The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them. You are to consider, that the invisible thing called a Good Name, is made up of the Breath of Numbers that speak well of you; so that if by a disobliging Word you silence the meanest, the Gale will be less strong which is to bear up your Esteem.

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.