Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !

I never knew any man cured of inattention.

Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.