Handsome is that handsome does.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having just before threatened to kick his; for I have observed very accurately, that no one ever desires you to kick that which belongs to himself, nor offers to kiss this part in another.

In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.