Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.