I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.

The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart

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