Credulity is the sister of innocence.

There's no nation under the sun can beat the English for ill-politeness: for my part, I hate the very sight of them; and so I shall only just visit a person of quality or two of my particular acquaintance, and then I shall go back again to France.

You must learn not only to judge but to act for yourself.

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in the world.

... it's vastly more irksome to give up one's own way, than to hear a few impertinent remarks.