Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.