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

Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?

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

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

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man.

The greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it.