A carpenter is known by his chips.

Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.

Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.

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.

When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.

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.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.