Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

A college joke to cure the dumps.

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

Perverseness is your whole defence.

Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.