Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.