We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.

If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.

Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire.

Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.

Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.

Every character is in some respects uniform, and in others inconsistent; and it is only by the study both of the uniformity and inconsistency, and a comparison of them with each other, that the knowledge of man is acquired.