One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them.

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

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

Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.

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

Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage

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