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

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire.

Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.

How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater.