One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.

In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.