A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.

Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.

Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.

Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory.

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.