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!

It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.

Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat.

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

If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.

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