How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

T is as cheap sitting as standing.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.